I have been on furlough from my job for the past few weeks. I'm loving it. It;s giving me time to catch up on quilting customer quilts and I actually have time to do some of my own piecing of quilts. I had about 6 quilts that needed the borders on them so I am getting them completed so they are ready to quilt. (I get them pieced as far as the borders and then I procrastinate!). I have also cut down the perrenials in my gardens that I did not have time to do last fall, and I trimmed some bushes. Spring isn't the best time to do it but I haven't gotten to it in fall the past couple years and they needed trimming. It has been pretty cold here in MN the past week. It snowed a few inches last weekend and it has been so cold this week that it is still not completely melted. It doesn't make my husband very happy. (He is a farmer!). It is supposed to warm up this weekend and stay nice next week. I am looking forward to Real spring weather. I worry about my children and grandchildren with this Pandemic. One child in Colorado (and two children) and is an essential worker in construction, one child in Rapid City (her and husband are both essential workers at a hospital and they have a 3 month old), and one child in Sioux Falls and is a essential worker at a Bank and husband is an essential worker in Ag equipment business. I worry about this child in Sioux Falls the most, since Sioux Falls is the #1 Hot Spot in the whole nation for this Corona virus!! Sioux Falls is only two hours from me. Any way, we will get through this and life will go on. I'm afraid the US will not be the same after this Pandemic. I foresee many small business closing in our area as I am not sure they will survive after being shut down for over a month. Our state is in a "Stay at Home" mode until at least May 4th. I work at a Casino Hotel and am very worried about going back to work. We have people stay there from all over the US and I fear someone will bring in the virus and we will then all get contaminated at the hotel. Time will tell. We just have to have faith that this Pandemic will end soon.